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Inspiration

Filmmaker uses iPhone to animate Lucas and Lynch

There are plenty of people out there who never tap into their iPhone’s filmmaking potential. Sascha Ciezat is not one of those people. Sascha whipped up one of the coolest animations we’ve seen come off an iPhone. In short, Sascha took recorded audio from a conversation with David Lynch, and animated to it using a $.99 app called iMotion. Have a look!  Get

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Apps and Accessories from our SuperMeet Presentation

BIG thanks to everyone who came to last Friday’s SuperMeet! It was an amazing day. We met all sorts of great people coming to the HHH Showcase table. And, I had a TOTAL BLAST on stage during the main event. If you were a part of that audience, thanks for making it easy. You were awesome! If you tried watching the

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A collage of convention moments: a colorful SuperMeet super sale sign, an overjoyed woman among a crowd, and an enthusiastic iPhone Developers speaker engaging an audience.
Announcements

Watch tonight’s SuperMeet Online Live!

We just got the word that the San Francisco SuperMeet is being streamed live over the intertubes starting at around 6:45pm tonight! Neat! To watch the feed, point your browser to:

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A collage of convention moments: a colorful SuperMeet super sale sign, an overjoyed woman among a crowd, and an enthusiastic iPhone Developers speaker engaging an audience.
Announcements

iPhone Developers converge at SuperMeet

Don’t forget, the San Francisco SuperMeet is this Friday.  The main event begins at 7pm, but the Digital Showcase starts up at 3:30pm.  The Showcase is a mini-expo, where product developers show off their latest gizmos. You can try stuff out, ask questions, and meet the developers. Need another reason to make the trip?  HHH will have its very own table at the

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First-generation Apple iPad release displayed from the front, back, and side views.
Gear

Apple Releases the iPad! I release a squeal!

If an iPhone, a PSP, a netbook, and your TV all fell into a Cuisinart, you’d be left with Apple’s new iPad. Essentially, the iPad is a large-screen iPhone with lots of computing mojo…which is fine by us!  We’ve often said, “this app is great, but the screen is just too small.”  That limitation may have just disappeared.

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Logo for San Francisco SuperMeet at Mission Bay Conference Center UCSF on February 5, 2010.
Announcements

HHH is headed to the San Francisco SuperMeet!

We got some great news today!  Hand Held Hollywood has been asked to give a presentation at this year’s San Francisco SuperMeet! What’s a SuperMeet, you ask? It’s the reason you should hop in your car and get to the Mission Bay Conference Center on Friday, Feb 5th.  I suppose you’ll be wanting a few more details.  Alrighty then… SuperMeets

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